Morning journal and courier., 1887-06-02
LOCAL NEWS.
Brief Mention.

See the new goods at Dorman's.
 The Day street sewer is nearly completed
 The free public library will be opened il about week.
 A praise service is to be given at Center church next Sunday evening.
 MT. John A. Porter, son of Mrs. John A Porter of Hillhouse avenue, is seriously i'll il Washington, D. c.
 Mrs. Van Deerlin, wife of Rector Var Deerlin, formerly of this city, is in town or short visit to friends.
 Deputy Sheriffs Higgins and Catlin "tooh hold" yesterday, and the new changes at the jail went into effect also.
 President Conklin received fifty dollars recently as donation to the Good Samari tans' Temperance society.
 Autoharps. Call at Loomis' Temple o Music and see the wonderful new musica autoharp. Anyone can play it.
 Arrangements are being made for grand praise service to be given at the First Metho dist church on Sunday evening, June 1s.
 The officers of the State Agricultural so ciety have decided to make the premium list at the coming fair larger than that of last year.
 James Brown, seventy years old, life long dweller in New Haven, died yesterday at the almshouse where he had been for the past year.
 Said prominent professor at the Yale Art school reception last evening: Make a note of this, "Just what it is cracked up to be-the old State House."
 Harry Fisher, former night clerk at the Elliott House, died suddenly at his home in New Bedford Tuesday night. His health had been for some time failing.
 The First M. E. church, Bridgeport, will establish mission at the West End in that city, and site for chapel has been pur- chased on Colorado avenue.
 The bronze figures of History and Prosper ity have arrived and will be set in position on the Soldiers monument today. Another of the figures arrives to-day. Thomas F. Colwell has been appointed night transfer mail clerk at the depot in place of James F. Donohue, who succeeds James Malloy as day transfer clerk.
 The Rajah, formerly of this city, will com pete in the Larchmont regatta Saturday; also the Mona and the UIidia, which sailed in the New Haven Yacht club regatta last fall.
 Jnlius Twiss and Annie E. Root have been appointed by the Probate court executors of the last will and testament of William J. Root. Mir. Root leaves quite large estate.
 The schooner E. H. Weaver, which has been ashore at Lloyds Neck, l.. l., for the past nine weeks, has been hoated. She will be lowed to New York, where she will be re- paired.
 About 15O members of Admiral Foote post, G. A. R., go to Guilford to-day with drum corps, leaving at 11:05, to participate in the dedication exercises of the Guilford Soldiers monument.
 Horace Wall and family have gone for the season to their family residence in Guilford. MT. Wall returns frequently to this city to superintend the improvements in progress at the New Haven Opera House.
 MT. Farwell, Yale 'S2, connected with the well known Farwell firm of Chicago, has been recently married to Miss Day, of Chicago. They spent Sunday in New Haven and will leave for Europe in few days.
 The new boy choir of Christ church is undergoing 8 thorough drilling preparatory to their being duly installed as an adjunct to the worship of the church. The new organ for Christ church is about completed.
 Among the many meritorious exhibits at the Yale Art school exhibition yesterday was one, a work in oil colors, by Miss Clara Thayer, young lady residing at Medway, near Boston. It was study representing a laborer and was were expressive and well fin ished.
 T. H. Mallory, W. A. Bronson and others have leased the property on the corner of Orange and Grove streets and propose to erect reviewing stand for the 17th of June. The stand will be 90 feet front with twelve rows of seats and seating capacity of eight hundred.
 The Golden Links, society of pretty ladies at Dwight Place church, gave fair and sociable last evening at the church par lors. It drew well despite the wet weather. Refreshments and fancy articles were dis posed of. The money realized goes to the missionary fund.